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Gerrit van Honthorst

On June 13, 2025 - 17th Century, Dutch, november 4

Gerrit van Honthorst, Dutch painter, November 4, 1592 – April 27, 1656

Portrait of Gerrit van Honthorst in Cornelis de Bie's Gulden Cabinet.

Princess Louise Hollandine, 1650 Oil on canvas, 27 1/4 x 22 1/4 in // Ashdown House, Oxfordshire, UK

Granida and Daifilo, 1625 Oil on canvas, 5.69 x 7.04 in // Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands

Musical Group on a Balcony, 1622 Oil on panel, 10.13 ft x 44.88 in // Getty Center, Los Angeles

King David Playing the Harp, 1622 Oil on canvas, 3.18 x 2.55 in // Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands

Solon and Croesus, 1624 Oil on canvas, 66.3 x 84.2 in // Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany

The Steadfast Philosopher, 1623 Oil on canvas, 59.6 x 81.7 in // Private collection

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Hendrick ter Brugghen

On June 10, 2025 - 17th Century, Dutch, nbd

Hendrick Jansz ter Brugghen, Dutch painter, 1588 – 1 November 1629

Heraclitus, 1628 Oil on canvas, 33.6 x 27.5 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Democritus, 1628 Oil on canvas, 33.7 x 27.5 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

The Concert, circa 1626 Oil on canvas, 39 x 45.9 in // National Gallery, London

Bacchante with an Ape, 1627 Oil on canvas, 40.51 x 35.51 in // Getty Center, Los Angeles

Christ Crowned with Thorns, 1620 Oil on canvas, 81.49 x 94.48 in // Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Supper at Emmaus, between circa 1619 and circa 1620 Oil on canvas, 42.9 x 55.5 in // Sanssouci Picture Gallery, Potsdam, Germany

The Incredulity of Thomas, 1622 Oil on canvas, 42.8 x 53.7 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

The Adoration of the Kings, 1619 Oil on canvas, 52.1 x 63.1 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

The Gamblers, 1623 Oil on canvas, 33.6 x 45.2 in Minneapolis Institute of Art

King David Playing the Harp, Surrounded by Four Angels, 1628 Oil on canvas, 59 x 74.8 in // National Museum in Warsaw

Mars Asleep, 1629 Oil on panel, 59.84 x 55.11 in // Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands

Jacob Reproaching Laban for Giving Him Leah in Place of Rachel, 1627 Oil on canvas, 38.3 x 45 in // National Gallery, London

Esau Sells his Birthright, circa 1625 Oil on canvas, 33.4 x 45.7 in // Gemäldegalerie Berlin

Hendrick ter Brugghen, The Calling of Saint Matthew, 1621 Oil on canvas, 5 x 6.4 in Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands

The Calling of Saint Matthew, 1621 Oil on canvas, 64 x 50.9 in // Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands

Unequal Couple, c. 1623 Oil on canvas, 29.3 x 35.1 in // Private Collection

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Agostino Carracci

On June 5, 2025 - 16th Century, 17th Century, august 16, Italian

Agostino Carracci, Italian artist, August 16, 1557 – March 22, 1602

Agostino Carracci, Self portrait as a watchmaker

Venus and Cupid, ca. 1599 Black chalk on paper, 10.3 × 17.2 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Agostino Carracci, Bust-Length Portrait of a Woman Red chalk, over possible traces of black chalk The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bust-Length Portrait of a Woman Red chalk, over possible traces of black chalk, 13 11/16 x 9 13/16 in // The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Glaucus and Scylla, 1597 Fresco Farnese Gallery Rome

Anna Parolini Guicciardini, 1598 Oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Portrait of an Old Woman, circa 1590 Oil on canvas Collection of the Cassa di Risparmio di Bologna

Jan van der Venne

On June 3, 2025 - 17th Century, Flemish, nbd

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David Teniers the Younger

On June 3, 2025 - 17th Century, december 15, Flemish

David Teniers the Younger, Flemish painter, December 15, 1610 – April 25, 1690

Portrait of David Teniers by Philip Fruytiers, 1655

Old Man with Fur Hat, between 1640 and 1690 Oil on panel, 8.6 x 6.2 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Still-life with Books and Globe, 1650s Oil on wood, 20.4 x 26.9 in // Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Smoking and Drinking Monkeys, c 1660 Oil on panel, 8.2 x 11.8 in // Museo del Prado, Madrid

The Alchemist, between c 1640 and c 1650 Oil, 10.7 x 14.7 in // Mauritshuis, The Hague

Still-Life With Overturned Jug, 1635 Oil on panel, 6.3 x 5.1 in // Private collection

Peasants Smoking in a Tavern, c 1637 Oil on panel, 15.5 x 14.6 in // Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Village Festival, c 1645 Oil on canvas, 45.3 x 70.1 in // Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

Card Players, between c 1644 and c 1645 Oil on panel, 15.1 x 20.8 in // Private collection

A Family Concert on a Terrace, between c 1640 and c 1649 Oil on canvas, 16.3 x 13.7 in // Private collection

After Jusepe de Ribera Jesus among the Doctors, 1651/1656 Oil on panel, 8.3 x 12.2 in // Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Guardroom with Monkeys, c 1633 Oil on panel, 16.3 x 22.8 in // Private collection

A Guardroom with a Self-Portrait of the Artist, 1640s Oil on copper, 19.2 x 25.5 in // Private collection

Village Doctor Looking at a Urine Sample, 1645 Oil, 11 x 14.5 in // Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

The Dentist, early 1640s Oil on panel, 13.7 x 12 in // Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Dresden

Jan van Goyen

On May 31, 2025 - 17th Century, Dutch, january 13

Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter, January 13, 1596 – April 27, 1656

Portrait of Jan von Goyen by Gerard ter Borch

Landscape with a Cart on a Dike, 1646 Oil on panel, 13.5 x 18.7 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

River Landscape with a Windmill and a Ruined Castle, 1644 Oil on canvas, 38.1 in x 52.3 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

View of Haarlem and the Haarlemmer Meer, 1646 Oil on wood, 13 5/8 x 19 7/8 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

An Evening River Landscape with a Ferry, 1643 Oil on panel, 24 x 16.1 in // Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, France

Farmyard, 1628 Oil Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig

Peasant Huts with a Sweep Well., 1633 Oil on oak wood, 21.6 x 31.4 in // Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden

Village at the River, 1636 Oil on wood, 15.6 x 23.6 in // Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Sail- and Rowboats at the Mouth of a River, 1640 Oil on panel, 30.3 x 45.6 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Landscape with a Rainbow, 17th century Oil, 49 x 60.8 in // Hallwyl Museum, Stockholm

The Thunderstorm, 1641 Oil on canvas, 54.2 x 72.1 in // Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

A Windmill by a River, 1642 Oil on panel, 11.6 x 14.3 in // National Gallery, London

Ice Scene near a Wooden Observation Tower, 1646 Oil on panel, 14 3/8 × 13 1/2 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

View of the Great Church of Dordrecht, before 1648 Black chalk, pen and black ink, 4.2 x 6.2 in // Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Footbridge with Fishermen, 1651 Chalk on paper, 4.3 x 7.7 in // Groeningemuseum, Bruges, Belgium

A Fair, 1653 Black chalk with gray wash, 6 3/4 x 11 3/4 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Ruins by the Water, 1649 Black chalk and India ink Staatliche Museen Berlin

Bartholomeus van der Helst

On May 31, 2025 - 17th Century, Dutch, nbd

Bartholomeus van der Helst, Dutch painter, 1613–1670

Bartholomeus van der Helst, Self-portrait, 1667

Nude Drawing Back the Curtain, 1658 Oil on canvas, 48.6 x 37.7 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Bartholomeus van der Helst, Banquet at the Crossbowmen’s Guild in Celebration of the Treaty of Münster, 1648 Oil on canvas, 91.3 x 17.9 ft Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Banquet at the Crossbowmen’s Guild in Celebration of the Treaty of Münster, 1648 Oil on canvas, 91.3 x 17.9 ft // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Double Portrait of Jan Jacobsz. Hinlopen and Lucia Wijbrants, 1666 Oil on canvas, 52.7 x 63.3 in Private collection

Anna du Pire as Granida, 1660 Oil on canvas, 27.5 x 23 in // National Gallery Prague

Jacobus Trip, Armaments Dealer, between 1650 and 1660 Oil on canvas, 43.3 x 37.4 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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Alessandro Allori

On May 31, 2025 - 16th Century, 17th Century, Italian, may 31

Alessandro Allori, Italian painter, May 31, 1535-September 22, 1607

Self-portrait, circa 1555 Oil on panel, 23.6 x 18.5 in // Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Study of Two Seated Girls Drawing, 12.9 x 13.7 in // Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Susanna and the Elders, 1561 Oil on canvas, 79.5 x 46 in // Musée Magnin, Dijon, France

Alessandro Allori, Portrait of a Lady in Black and White, about 1590-1599 Oil on poplar panel, 38 3/4 x 27 11/16 in Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Portrait of a Lady in Black and White, about 1590-1599 Oil on poplar panel, 38 3/4 x 27 11/16 in // Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Pearl Fishers, 1570-72 Oil on slate, 45.7 x 33.9 in // Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

The Banquet of Syphax, 1578-82 Fresco Villa Medici, Poggio a Caiano, Italy

Annunciation, 1577 - 1578 Oil on canvas, 17.5 x 11.2 in Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze, Florence

Willem Drost

On May 30, 2025 - 17th Century, april 19, Dutch

Willem Drost, Dutch painter, April 19, 1633 – February 25, 1659

Self-portrait, circa 1653 Oil on panel, 11.2 x 9.8 in // Unknown gallery

Woman at a Window, 1654 Oil on canvas, 29.5 x 25.5 in // Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, France

Man in Armor, 1655 Oil on panel, 45.6 x 37.2 in // Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Kassel, Germany

Young Woman in a Brocade Gown, circa 1654 Oil on canvas, 24.5 x 19.6 in // The Wallace Collection, London

Vertumnus and Pomona, 1650s Oil on canvas, 41.7 × 41.7 in // National Museum in Warsaw

Portrait of a Young Man, circa 1655 Oil on canvas, 20.9 x 19 in // Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence

Old man with a Book, between 1654 and 1659 Edit this at Oil on canvas, 33.8 x 29.1 in // National Museum in Warsaw

Roman Charity/Cimon and Pero, between 1655 and 1657 Oil on canvas, 61.4 x 46.3 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Willem Drost, The Annunciation to the Virgin, 1646 Oil on canvas, 34.6 x 27.5 in National Gallery Prague

The Annunciation to the Virgin (fragment), 1646 Oil on canvas, 34.6 x 27.5 in // National Gallery Prague

Anna the Prophetess and a Child, 1650s Oil on canvas, 46 x 35 in // Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

Willem Drost, Standing Young Man at the Window in his Study Reading, Known as"The Student," 1647 Oil on canvas, 31.2 × 34.9 in Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Standing Young Man at the Window in his Study Reading, Known as"The Student," 1647 Oil on canvas, 31.2 × 34.9 in // Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

The Sibyl, circa 1654 Oil on canvas, 38.5 x 30.7 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Portrait of a Man, 1653 or 1655 Oil on canvas, 34 1/8 x 28 1/2 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Bathsheba with King David's Letter, 1654 Oil on canvas, 40.5 x 34.2 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Jacob van Ruisdael

On May 29, 2025 - 17th Century, Dutch, nbd

Jacob van Ruisdael, Dutch painter, c. 1629 – March 10, 1682

Dune Landscape near Haarlem, 1649 Oil on canvas, 26.7 x 32.2 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

View of Naarden, 1647 Oil on panel, 13.7 x 26.3 in // Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

The Jewish Cemetery, circa 1654/1655 Oil on canvas, 55.9 x 74.4 in // Detroit Institute of Arts

View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds, circa 1665 Oil on canvas, 24.4 x 21.7 in // Kunsthaus Zürich

Landscape with Windmills near Haarlem, between 1654 and 1656 Oil on oak panel, 12.4 x 13.3 in // Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

Dunes by the Sea, 1648 Oil on panel, 17.7 x 24 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Winter Landscape with a Watermill, after 1660s Oil on canvas, 21.6 x 26.5 in // Private collection

Oak Tree and Dense Shrubbery at the Edge of a Pond, 1646-47 Oil on panel, 26 x 19.3 in // Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest

Landscape with a Village in the Distance, 1646 Oil on wood, 29.9 x 42.9 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Breakwater, 1670-72 Oil on canvas, 43.3 x 63 in // Musée du Louvre, Paris

The Dam Square in Amsterdam, c. 1670 Oil on canvas, 20.5 x 25.6 in Staatliche Museen, Berlin

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